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Resist!
Another DUer recommended the link below. If you scroll down, it's a long, long list of non-violent things you can do to resist. Every action adds up. I have about 10 yard signs & every day I put a different one out & cycle through them. About six weeks ago I was discouraged & thought what good does this tiny bit do, & two days later I found a note in my front door that said, "Thank you for putting your signs out every day. It gives me hope." A couple weeks ago someone mailed me $20 with a note that said, "Love your signs! We want to pitch in!" It doesn't seem like much but sometimes people just need to know they aren't alone in the way they feel.
Some good ideas here! https://commonslibrary.org/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action
Here's a place to look for like-minded activist groups in your area: https://indivisible.org
Hope22
(4,386 posts)I love that people are supporting your efforts in their own ways. Beautiful!
Totally Tunsie
(11,496 posts)"Hey - your flag pin is upside down."
I reply "No. No, it isn't. This is the sign of a nation in distress. OUR nation is in distress."
(Great illustration in your post, by the way.)
jfz9580m
(16,363 posts)Did you make it CrispyQ?
Very cool if so
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You are far from alone (and not in the creepy surveillance state way ;-/ ..that too probably but thats less positive ;-/ )..
markie
(23,800 posts)indivisible meeting a few nights ago... important stuff!!!
I'm pretty isolated where I am (home in Vermont, but sort of living and working in Maryland) and I asked if ICE had been in the community.... hadn't heard anything on news or from neighbors.... oh boy, did I hear stories.... we ALL need to go to these meetings and encourage as many people as we can to do the same... we are in this together and it is going to take ALL OF US


jfz9580m
(16,363 posts)Hi CrispyQ,
I found the graphic you posted inspiring (and I am usually suspicious of concepts like inspiring ;-/..well the horrible corporate culture version anyway) back in August.
I was sad to see that it is down. I couldnt find it with searches like tyrant with whip.
Do you still have it?
Now I remember that this post was where I first saw a reference to Indivisible. That looks like a good group.
(I like your posts btw. Your activism reminds me a bit of the work my mom in law does. She is also a citizen activist. I am very amicably divorced from my ex, but I still consider her mom adjacent. We were always close.
She would have fit right in on DU. But I keep my online rants separate from my irl rants ;-/ (not that there is much difference really..) so I never told her about DU.
I havent been in touch with her recently because I am in another country. I tried unsuccessfully several times to block out all Technofascist realities ;-/. )
But try as one might, Trumpian-Other Technofascist realities are hard to escape anywhere these days and I like stuff that boosts my morale in conflicts with similar hateful, gaslighting assholes where I live now.
I really liked that graphic.
CrispyQ
(40,549 posts)I vaguely remember that image, unfortunately, I lost a ton of images recently with a computer SNAFU.
I don't tell my IRL political friend about DU either, but I'm sure some of them are here, even though I haven't a clue what their DU identity is. It's just they know about stuff at the same time I do & I got it here.
jfz9580m
(16,363 posts)I loved that graphic.
It depicted a tyrant wielding a whip while a crowd of people cowered in front of him and then one person stands up and then another and then another and by the end the tyrant is cowering.
What was awesome was I think it was a graphic from Indivisible.
I am so sick of the lame gamer worldview- its not guns nor hacking expertise etc. What gave most of us average people any damn rights is grassroots activism like that, not some sleazy little apolitical arg or worse one shilled as pro democracy etc.
Just standing up to the fascists and not with a bloody trashy TED tech talk or sleazy little product in tow, but defense of your own humanity is enough.
Thats why I post here and not on Facebook.
Thank you. You inspired me CrispyQ. You all do and thank you for that
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